Container for cigarettes



Aug. 17 1926. 1 596,740

R A. KOMER CONTAINER FOR (.IGARETTES Filed March 24v 1924 mil/m1 v 7 7'0ENE Y Patented Aug. 17, 1926.

UNITED STATES ROBERT A. KOMER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI con'ranmn r oncreaan'r'rns.

Application filed March 24, 1924. Serial No. 701,456.

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement incigarette-containers and has for its-chief object the provision. as anewarticle of manufacture. of a container integrally combining a chamber orreceptacle for a package or quantity of cigarettes and safety matcheswith lighting means for the contained cigarettes, the container as awhole being of simple and inexpensive construction, compact in form, andefficient and convenient in use. 1

Withthe above and other objects in view,

my present invention resides in the novel features of form,constructlon, arrangement,

and combination of parts hereinafter de scribed and afterwards pointedout in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a container embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a plan view of the container;

Figure 3 is an open plan view'of the scored or divided blank employed intheformation of the container; and i Figure 4 is a view of thepanel-providing blank .as folded in the formation of the container.

Referring now more in detail and by reference characters to the drawing.which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my in= vention, A indicatesthe container blank, which is preferably of any suitable relativelyflexible for bendable material, such as, for instance, paper,light-weight card-board, or the like. The blank A. which isapproximately of rectangular-oblong form. isof suitable dimensions,length and breadth, as may be desired in the height. width, and capacityof the-finished or complete container. and is transversely scored orotlffiwise marked for convenient folding at spaced intervals throughoutits length. as at 1, 2, 3. 4, 5. 6. 7. 8, 9, and 10. and is thusintegrally divided into a plurality of adjoining panels adapted to formthe top, rear, and opposite side walls of the body-portion ormatch-compartment of the container. As so constructed and scored orotherwise marked, the blank A is folded upon the lines form, the blankend-panel 11 being brought over into fiatwise registration with andpref- 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 into containererably adhesivelyfixed to the intermediate panel 12, which latter panel is disposedbetween the folding lines 8 and 9. The intermediate bl'ank-panels 13 and14, which are, respectively, disposed between the folding lines 3 and 4and 4 and 5, are then folded not 'onlyapproximately fiatwise together,but also, as best seen in Figure 4, to overlie a side margin of theintermediate blank-panel 15, which latter panel is disposed between thefolding or bending lines 1 and 2. A strip including a plurality ofordinary or common so-called breakable paper safetymatches, orcigarette-lighting members B, as I term them,- is then disposed fiatwiseupon the blank-panel 15, the strip proper being interposed under theoverlying flap formed by the fiatwise registering intermediateblankpanels 13 and 14, the thickness of such match strip beingaccommodated by the folded and also substantially registeringintermediate corner blank-panels 16 and 17 which are, re-

blank-panel 15, not only is the blank A securely held in finishedcontainer form, its one endpanel 11 being, as stated, adhesively fixedfiatwise to and upon the. intermediate blankpanel 12, but the atch-stripB is-firmly and permanently ached to and forms substantially an integralpart of the container.

With the blank A so folded and secured,

i-tssaid fiatwise disposed and fixed together panels 11 and 12 form oneside wall of the ,contgainer, its intermediate-panel 18, which resi' esbetween the. folding-lines 6 and 7 forms the opposite side wall of thecontainer,

and its intermediate-panels 15 and 19, which latter panel residesbetween the folding lines 7 and 8, form respectively, tom walls of thetop and botthe container, the opposite blank end-panel 2O foldingsmoothly and substantially fiatwise over and upon and providing a coverfor the matches B, as clearly seenin Fgures 1 and 2% As will be evident,

and as illustrated in Figure 2,'the free edge of the flap or match-cover20' may be conveniently disposed and releasably secured under thematch-overlappin flap formed mediate corner blank-panel 21 which residesbetween the folding-lines 9 and 10.

At "one side edge, the blank A is further divided, as at 22 and 23, toalso comprise panel-extensions which are adapted to pro- 1 vide or formend-flaps 24 and 25, the latter flap 25 being also scored or otherwisemarked for folding, as at 26, 27, 28,. and 29. As so scored or marked,the flap 24 is first folded downwardly and the flap 25 then, at thelines 26, 27, 28, and 29, folded, as best seen in v Figure 4, inwardlyand upwardly upon and secured, preferably adhesively, to the flap 24 toform the end-wall of the container.

The finished container is thus approximately rectangular in form andprovides an open-end convenient and handy receptacle for a quantity ofcigarettes shown in the present instance in package-form, as at D,sealed in the container as an original package by means of a stamp orthe like E.

' My new container may be easily constructed either manually or bymachine and provides ready at hand matches for the lighting of theseveral contained-cigarettes as they are removed from the package. It

will be evident that, if desired, the container may be constructed ofsufliciently strong and durable material to enable its repeatedemployment as a carrier of cigarettes and the like; preferably, however,the container is inexpensively constructed for discarding on. removal ofthe original package of cigarettes and, to that end, is equipped withmatches B substantially corresponding in number with the containedcigarettes, for the convenient lighting or ignition of which matches thecontainer is also preferably provided with a suitable emery orscratching surface, as at 30, upon the exposed blank-portion or flap I4.

I am aware that changes in the form; construction, arrangement, andcombination of the several parts of the container may be made andsubstituted for those herein shown I and described without, departingfrom the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a cigarette-container comprising acigarette-hold ing body-portion constructed of a section of flexiblematerial divided into a plurality of adjoining panels and folded uponitself,

whereby one end-panel, and an intermediate panel jointly-formoneside-wall of the container body-portion, other and the top and bottomwalls of the container body-portion, still other intermediateintermediate panels form, respectively, the opposite side 4' panelsjointly form a flap overlying a marginal portion of the top wall, andthe opposite end panel forms a second flap opposed in direction to thefirst flap and adapted to swingably overlie a portion of the top wall.

2. As an article of manufacture, a cigarette-container comprising acigarette-holding body-portion constructed of a section of flexiblematerial divided into a plurality of adjoining panels andpanel-extensions and folded upon itself, whereby one endpanel and anintermediate panel jointly form one side-wall of the containerbodyportion, other intermediate panels form, re spectively, the oppositeside and the top and bottom walls of the container body-portion, stillother intermediate panels jointly form a flap overlying a marginalportion of the top wall,\the opposite end panel forms a second flapopposed in direction to the first flap and adapted to swingably overliea portion of the top wall, and said panel-extensions jointly form anend-wall of the container body-portion.

3. As an article of manufacture, a cigarette-container comprising acigarette-holding body-portion constructed of a single section offlexible material integrally; divided into a plurality of adjoiningpanels and panel-extensions and folded upon itself, whereby oneend-panel and an intermediate panel are disposed in flatwise relationfor permanent connection and jointly form one side-wall of the containerbodyportion, other intermediate panels form, respectively, the oppositeside and the top and bottom walls of the container bodyportion, stillother intermediate panels are disposed in flatwise relation forpermanent connection and jointly form a flap overlying a marginalportion of the top wall, the opposite end panel forms a second flapopposed in direction to the first flap and adapted to swingably overliea portion of the top-wall, andtsaid panel-extensions are disposed inopposed relation and jointly form an end-wall of the container bodyportion, said one end and intermediate panel and said other intermediatepanels being, respectively, fixed together in sidewall and flap-formingrelation.

4'. As an article of manufacture, a cigarette-container comprising acigarette-holding body-portion constructed of a single section offlexible material integrally divided into a plurality of adjoiningpanels and panel-extensions and folded upon itself, whereby certain ofthe panels form the side and topand bottom walls of the containerbody-portion, certain of the intermediate panels are secured together inflatwise relation and jointly form a flap overlying a marginal portionof the top-wall,an end panel forms a second flap opposed indirection tothe first flap and adapted to swingably overlie a portion of thetop-wall, and said panel extensions are disposed in opposed relation andjointly form an end-wall of the con- 5 tainer body-portion, incombination with a strip disposed and fixed intermediate said first flapand said top wall, and a lightingme-mber projecting from said strip toflatwise extend for removal lengthwise upon said to -wall, said secondflap providing a swinga 1e cover for the lighting member.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

ROBERT A. KOMER.

